Little Slide Rooter

Chris Rusin has been really good as of late. Brett Jackson has been really bad as of late.

Is it just me, or does it seem like Brewers fans are treating this rivalry more seriously now? It seems like they are turning into White Sox fans where this "rivalry" is more important than other logical ones at this time (i.e. Cardinals are competing for the division this year and not us). Didnt someone on this board post a picture of some guy's arm tatoo of Bernie the Brewer gunning down a bear cub? Actually, I was thinking the opposite. In the past, The Brewers have viewed the Cubs as their chief rival, when ours is obviously the Cardinals. Both teams pretty much sucked when the Brewers jumped to the NL and it was a mostly friendly rivalry of who can suck the least. As someone who went to shool in Wisconsin, it was really quite annoying. It's actually more a Milwaukee vs. Chicago rivalry than just sports. They have the little brother syndrome and it's really not even close. The Cubs/Brewers rivalry obviously heated up a few years ago when we were actually competing for the division for the first time. However, the last few years they've been turning to the Cardinals, especially after last year with the Carpenter/T. Plush/Pujols feud. Ironically, none of the 3 players involved are relevant this year for one reason or another and the Brewers are in danger of falling back out or relevance all together.

No way that would happen. If nothing else, we'd send them a Rule 5 elible guy or 2 just to appease Selig so it's not setting a precedent for stealing executives or whatever.

I just found it, and there's actually a handful. I started a new thread for it.

List courtesy of The Cubs Reporter. Not sure how complete it is. CUBS ELIGIBLE FOR MLB RULE 5 DRAFT POST-2012: Jeffry Antigua, LHP Justin Bour, 1B Michael Brenly, C Michael Burgess, OF David Cales, RHP Esmailin Caridad, RHP Matt Cerda, INF Evan Crawford, OF Willengton Cruz, LHP Antonio Encarnacion, RHP Eduardo Figueroa, RHP Luis Flores, C Ramon Garcia, RHP Gregori Gonzalez, IF-OF Marcus Hatley, RHP Ty’Relle Harris, RHP Graham Hicks, LHP Brett Jackson, OF Jay Jackson, RHP Alvido Jimenez, RHP Richard Jones, 1B Austin Kirk, LHP Luis Liria, RHP Jeff Lorick, LHP David Macias, IF-OF (player-coach) Nate Maldonado, C (player-coach) Trey McNutt, RHP Pedro Medina, RHP (ex-OF) Jose Montesino, INF A. J. Morris, RHP Enyelberth Pena, RHP Felix Pena, RHP Starling Peralta, RHP Nelson Perez, OF Roderik Pichardo, RHP Brooks Raley, LHP Dae-Eun Rhee, RHP Rebel Ridling, 1B-OF Greg Rohan, IF-OF Melvin Rosa, RHP Jose Rosario, RHP Zac Rosscup, LHP Chris Rusin, LHP Julio Sanchez, RHP Brian Schlitter, RHP Ryan Searle, RHP Matt Spencer, LHP (ex-OF) Nick Struck, RHP Larry Suarez, RHP Charles Thomas, RHP (ex-3B) Francisco Turbi, RHP Brett Wallach, RHP Logan Watkins, INF Casey Weathers, RHP Rob Whitenack, RHP Ty Wright, OF The obvious to protect are Brett Jackson and McNutt. Whitenack as well. I'd like to protect Rhee this time and Struck as well. Rusin and Raley depending on how they finish the season. Kirk and Lorick are possibilities. Hatley, Logan Watkins, Jeff Antigua, Searle, and maybe J Jax and Weathers are guys I could see other teams picking but I'm not worried about it if they do. Caridad, Cales and Burgess are outside possibilities too.

Looks like Geo could have another suitor.

Does anyone have an early idea of which of our guys are Rule 5 eligible?

So is nobody else at all wondering what's going on with the Hoyer compensation anymore? Is it possible that they're waiting for one of our 2011 picks to be eligible? I'm not talking Baez or Maples, but one of the later round guys like Jensen, Weisman, McKirehen, or Francescon. I'm actually kind if worried that they have their eye on Whitenack and are waiting to see how his recovery comes along, which is damn good so far. Also, there's been talk about them cutting O Dog and/or Bartlett. Bartlett's likely too far removed from being any kind of good, but I'd be interested in swinging something for Hudson as part of the comp.

he gives out dumb contracts to free agents and some of his own guys, but there's really no track record of him taking on bad players with horrendous contracts. But in this case the other team would be paying said contract.

When did Josh Vitters OPS jump to .730? The only player I've ever seen with more hot and cold streaks is Alfonso Soriano. And I'm seriously considering taking Luis Valbuena seriously, if nothing else as an alternative to Jeff Baker.

You're not kidding in Whitenack. They say that guys are coming back stronger and stronger from TJS.

I wonder if we see a pen of Bowden-Batista-Rhoderick-Beliveau-Dolis-Russell-Cabrera in the not too distant future.

I was noticing that as well. 2nd night in a row.

What is Jokisches ceiling? Anything? He's been good this year. Some Very nice relief pitching from Cabrera, Rhoderick, Harris, and Weisman between Tenn and Daytona. Another bad day from Struck though. Refresh my memory: Ty'Relle Harris is the one who was hit by a car shortly after being demoted and missed the rest of the season, no? Seems to have recovered quite well.

We should win this game, but if not I'm guessing it will drain a good portion of the good will a lot of people have felt toward this team over the past few weeks. They'll be very vocal about it and in return be called over reacting meatballs. Tempers will boil and they'll fight back until the game thread is locked. Hopefully we win the game to avoid that kind of uglyness.

Here's comes the I.O.D.

When GD does that, it's often one of those plays that the fielder should have made, but not exactly an error, or else the fielder managed to knock the ball down and stop if from getting into the outfield.

I appreciate the awesomeness of David DeJesus the past 2 games, but if Castro and The Hair aren't hitting, we're pretty much fucked.

Man, the bowels of The Brewer's lineup is worse than the bowels of the Cubs lineup.

Yep That's what Lendy Castillo's for. Still, I appreciate them plunking Soriano instead of Castro or LaHair.

Yuck to Casey Coleman, but it makes sense that after the beating the pen took last night that they'd call on a guy capable of long inning duty if necessary.

The inning of doom will have to wait.

When this thread first materialized yesterday I was certain that by now it would have been locked either mercifully or because of excessive flaming.

Interesting.

At least we have a taxed bullpen and Chris Volstad on the mound tomorrow. Go Cubs!